Once known as Harveys Pond, and then Gouldsboro Lake in the late nineteenth Century, present-day Lake Watawga is a living legacy to a bygone era. Because of its lofty elevation, the lake was chosen as a suitable site for an ice-farming operation in the 1880s and the business flourished well in the 1940s with ice being transported via railroad to New York, New Jersey, Philadelphia, south to Florida, and by ship to Cuba. With the coming of refrigeration came the end of a labor intensive era and the beginning of the recreation-extensive one as we know Lake Watawga today. But if you close your eyes and listen very carefully you may hear the distant sounds of men and horses, of ice wagons rolling, or the whistle of a train wafting faintly through the air.